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Wiztango is a digital platform for Publishers, Authors, Enterprises and other Content Originators to enable learning circles.

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In the article, “L&D’s biggest challenge and greatest opportunity: letting go” Jane Hart wrote “Modern professionals like to learn with and from others” As organizational leaders, are we leveraging an effective framework to achieve this? Learning circles is a scalable framework for digitally-facilitating collaborative learning at the workplace.

Description

Our aim is to coach a team to rapidly design and deliver a learning circle. Your first priority is to choose a topic. Next, select three to five relevant professionals to form your design and delivery team. The team can comprise of a subject matter expert, training professional, content designer, instructional designer, senior management, facilitator, manager and other functional roles. Then we plan out a schedule - rapid 1-2 days or slow and steady over a few weeks.

Our intervention consists of synchronous face-to-face sessions combined with asynchronous digital learning. The purpose of our face-to-face interventions is to review completed work and validate next steps. In between, the team continues and completes the design & development learning circle.

The ultimate goal is to permeate the learning experience through the organization. As a result, the garnered collective intelligence can be shared with key stakeholders. The outcomes and analytics support managers in creating an evidence-based and actionable plan for subsequent learning interventions;

Learning circles are an effective framework for Digital Organization Development. Learning circles owe its origin to Study Circles from Sweden. Some of the core principles include equality of participants, facilitated learning not training, a collaborative and not competitive environment and balancing knowledge acquisition with social communication.

Key Learnings

To contextualize and define the learning circle overview

To design a blended learning plan

To develop and publish digital content

To deliver a digitally-facilitated learning experience

To share qualitative and quantitative outcomes and analysis

Pre-requisites

1. Bring a laptop or a digital device, preferably with a keyboard2. Our Face to face session should be a minimum of 60 minutes although 90 minutes is preferred3. Ensure sufficient lead time for your stakeholders, we recommend a minimum of 1-2 weeks

Topics and agenda

1. A Warm Welcome

To achieve a sense of comfort in our digitally-blended learning environment

2. Background

Research |
30 Minutes

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

3. Getting Started

Brainstorming |
30 Minutes

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

4. Road Map

Action planning |
30 Minutes

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

5. Defining the Overview

Development |
1 Hours

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

6. Learning Plan Topics

Case Study |
3 Hours

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

7. Story Boarding Content

Case Study |
2 Hours

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

8. Digital Publishing

Case Study |
1 Hours

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

9. Implementation

Planning |
1 Hours

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

10. Facilitating delivery

Piloting |
3 Hours

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

11. Review and Reflection

Application |
1 Hours

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

12. Reference

Receiving |
30 Minutes

By Prashant Jain, CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

Professionals

Prashant JainCEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles

PJ is the Chief Architect of Learning Circles and creator of Wiztango.com a Digital Facilitation Technology Platform for Content Originators. He is an American with a global background as an entrepreneur in technology and education management.

In 2002, he founded and for fourteen years successfully managed an in-residence corporate university for Japanese employees of Hitachi Corp, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Yokogawa, Panasonic and 30 global Japanese corporations. The Singapore-based company achieved $8.9M revenue at its peak and had 1,000 Japanese graduates from 25 global-skill development programs.

Magmasoft Pte Ltd

We are supported by the Lifelong Learning Council and Skills Future Singapore to pilot 'Singapore Learning Circles' a national initiative on community based learning featuring 'by the community with the community.'

We collaborate with practitioners from all backgrounds to play an active role in shaping the culture of lifelong learning in Singapore!

As part of the initiative, we assist practitioners to create a digitally-blended learning experience through learning circles.